Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped by the cable office before leaving. To his astonishment, he found that all press messages could go out freely. After the operator had dispatched Forbis' copy, he asked what had happened. The manager told him that he had been visited by Somoza's chief aide and censor, and that the conversation had gone as follows: "From now on nothing is to be censored. That is, unless it seems to be critical of General . . . No, nothing at all is to be censored...
...acted as if there were no war, contributed stories to collaborationist papers. When others, writing in French magazines, denounce his wartime course, he shrugs them off as "professionals of the Liberation." His friends have tried to excuse him by saying that he wrote anti-racist stories which the Nazi censor rejected, but he himself offers no defense for what he did or did not do. As a practicing pessimist, he prefers to meet such, questions, as he does most others, merely with a silent stare...
...song score and a showmanlike production, it should leave moviegoers feeling that they have been roundly entertained. The picture sticks close to the original musicomedy book by Dorothy and Herbert Fields, takes all its music & lyrics from the original Berlin tunes. It loses a few laughs getting by the censor, as well as five of the show's lesser songs. It gains trom jettisoning a conventional romantic subplot and from the broader canvas of the screen...
...nine letters printed yesterday was from Charles W Bailey, 2nd, '50 of Eliot House, who stated, "I believe that one of the basic tenets of academic freedom is that a University is no more obliged to support a man's personal opinions than it is expected to attempt to censor them. . . . Apparently Mr. Cunningham fails to understand that two or more men in the group may have different opinions...
Next morning Da Quinto and Gordon pleaded with the censor. "This means." they said, "a final blow to the theater in Spain." Shamefaced Censor Garcia Espina shrugged. "I'm just as sorry as you are," he said. "But orders are orders. You think I'm the boss, but I'm just an egg between two stones." Mumbled Da Quinto: "The Bernardas of Spain have the last word. The window is closed once more...